Yusuf warns: Court litigation harming Handball development

The President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Dauda Yusuf has lamented that the current court litigation over his re-election is hampering the development of the sport in the country.

Yusuf recently secured his second term in office as the boss of the HFN but a group known as Mega Veterans headed by a certain Mark Jacob and one of the opponents Yusuf defeated during the election, Rev Bamidele David have taken him to court seeking a nullification of his mandate.

HFN President told SportingLife that the court case came to him as a big surprise at a time he was settling down .

Yusuf however said he was hopeful that everything about the case would become history by October 15th when it is decided at an Abuja court.

He appealed to them to sheath their sword in the interest of peace and Nigerian sports stating that the HFN has earmarked programmes that are aimed at changing the dwindling fortunes of the sport.

“I have never said I am power drunk. It is only God that decided who leads. I won the election because of what we did during my first tenure. We are in the second term to right the wrong of that term but we have been dissuaded from doing that by court litigation.

“The court will sit on October 15th and I hope it brings to the end the court cases against the federation. I stretched my hands of fellowship to all the defeated opponents at the conclusion of the election and I promised to run a broad-based administration. Court litigation won’t be good enough for HFN now. It will deter the growth of it. We have good programmes for Handball but our professed enemies won’t allow us work,” Yusuf told SportingLife.

Handball was featured at the last National Sports Festival at Eko 2012 last December with Rivers winning the female and Lagos won in the male categories.